Interop 2013, one of the biggest networking shows each year, is here and the product announcements are plentiful

Interop is one of the definitive networking shows. It’s a place where vendors from around the industry come to display their latest and greatest products. This year, there seems to be a focus on next-generation networking, cloud computing, security, mobile and collaboration products and services, plus the hardware and accessories to support those. Here are some of the hottest tools we’ve noticed so far at this year’s Interop. (Products are listed in no particular order)

Key features: The system can support 50,000 filters on Layer 7 and identify applications including SKYPE, YouTube, BitTorrent, Facebook and more. It also has aggregation, packet slicing, load balancing, and traffic mirroring. More info.

Key features: enables multitier networks that can be deployed, configured or changed on demand, regardless of platform or hypervisor. Release 6.6 will support Multicast routing and Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN), two technologies that are critical for large enterprises and cloud service providers. More info.

Pricing: With MDM: Subscription license of $0.75 per device per month or perpetual license of $0 per device with $10 annual maintenance per device. Standalone: Subscription license of $4 per device per month or perpetual license of $50 one-time fee per device with $10 annual maintenance per device.

Key features: This is a software defined networking (SDN) application integration ecosystem that integrates with a partners to provide predefined and customer-defined apps for an entire network. More info.

Key features: business insights tool that provides a summary of historical and predictive information, providing clarity into the availability, performance, recovery, security and capacity of HOSTING’s cloud services. More info.

Key Features: Barracuda eon includes five models of a hardware appliance on which customers can drop virtualized versions of Barracuda network applications such as anti-spam, Web filtering and next-gen firewall. The advantage is that the eon virtual environment runs with a customer hypervisor that allows direct hardware access to the applications. More info.

Key features: extends Gigamon's pervasive and intelligent visibility and packet modification into a customer’s remote sites, enabling remote network monitoring by tunneling monitored data back to a central site for tool centralization and consolidation through a unified Visibility Fabric architecture. More info.